Niveau atteint B2

When Elise Morceau meets the writer Constance Holden, she quickly falls under her spell. Connie is sophisticated, bold and alluring -- everything Elise feels she is not. She follows Connie to LA, but in this city of strange dreams and razzle-dazzle, Elise feels even more out of her depth and makes an impulsive decision that will change her life forever. Three decades later, Rose Simmons is trying to uncover the story of her mother, who disappeared when she was a baby. Having learned that the last person to see her was a now reclusive novelist, Rose finds herself at the door of Constance Holden's house in search of a confession . . .
En 2017, Rose Simons cherche des réponses sur le passé de sa mère Elise Morceau, disparue sans laisser de traces peu après sa naissance. Elle découvre que la dernière personne à l'avoir vue est Constance Holden, une écrivaine recluse et oubliée, qui vivait le sommet de sa gloire lors de la disparition d'Elise.

It's an ordinary Thursday lunchtime for Arthur Dent until his house gets demolished. The Earth follows shortly afterwards to make way for a new hyperspace express route, and his best friend has just announced that he's an alien. At this moment, they're hurtling through space with nothing but their towels and an innocuous-looking book inscribed, in large friendly letters, with the words: DON'T PANIC. The weekend has only just begun . . .
Epopée galactique qui raconte l'histoire d'Arthur Dent, un homme ordinaire projeté dans l'espace à la suite de la destruction de la Terre. A la recherche de sa maison et accessoirement du sens de la vie, il découvre en auto-stop une galaxie complètement loufoque.

Holden Caulfield, 16 ans, est renvoyé de la pension où il ne fait pas grand-chose. Aussi désoeuvré que désabusé, il traîne dans les rues de New York au lieu de rentrer chez lui. Il raconte son histoire : la douleur qui a suivi la mort de son frère, ses difficultés d'adaptation et la grande tendresse qu'il voue à sa petite soeur.

Hercule Poirot is travelling by luxury passenger coach from London to the exclusive Kingfisher Hill estate. Richard Devonport has summoned him to prove that his fiancée, Helen, is innocent of the murder of his brother, Frank. There is one strange condition attached to this request: Poirot must conceal his true reason for being there from the rest of the Devonport family. On the coach, a distressed woman leaps up, demanding to disembark. She insists that if she stays in her seat, she will be murdered. A seat-swap is arranged, and the rest of the journey passes without incident. But Poirot has a bad feeling about it, and his fears are later confirmed when a body is discovered in the Devonports' home with a note that refers to Ì the seat that you shouldn't have sat in'. Could this new murder and the peculiar incident on the coach be clues to solving the mystery of who killed Frank Devonport? And can Poirot find the real murderer in time to save an innocent woman from the gallows?
Après avoir reçu une étrange missive, Hercule Poirot et l'inspecteur Catchpool se rendent à Kingfisher Hill, une imposante demeure, afin de résoudre le meurtre de Laurence Devonport, le fils aîné des propriétaires. La fiancée de la victime plaide coupable mais ni les deux enquêteurs, ni le frère de Laurence, ni Frank, l'expéditeur de la lettre, ne sont convaincus par son témoignage.

It's 1930's New York and fifteen-year-old streetkid Billy, who can juggle, somersault and run like the wind, has been taken under the wing of notorious gangster Dutch Schultz. As Billy learns the ways of the mob, he becomes like a son to Schultz - his 'good-luck kid' - and is initiated into a world of glamour, death and danger that will consume him, in this vivid, soaring epic of crime and betrayal.
L'épopée du crime dans l'Amérique des années 30. L'action se passe à Bathgate, une avenue du Bronx, ce quartier de New York qui vivait dans la misère, la crasse et la violence, et fait le récit d'un jeune voyou qui se cherche un parrain. Une version cinématographique est sortie en 1992.